About the Crop

            Little millet (Panicum sumatrense) is one among the minor millets and is a member of the family Poaceae. The crop is native to India and is cultivated for its small sized grain on marginal lands of Asia and Africa. It is a short duration, annual, tetraploid (2n = 4x = 36) crop of semi-arid and sub-tropical climate. The crop is loaded with nutrients and thrives exceptionally well under challenging environmental conditions like drought, soil salinity and even high temperature.This nutritionally rich millet is a low maintenance cereal that holds potential benefits for human health at minimal cost, thus ensuring dual advantage to mankind.

About Little Millet Transcriptome db

             Little Millet Transcriptome Database (LMTdb) is a repository of transcriptome data of two treatments , viz, control and drought stress with three tissues, namely secondary leaf, flag leaf and panicle. The Little Millet Transcriptome database is an information rich resource of transcriptome sequences and functions, plant metabolic networks, molecular markers and differentially expressed genes of various tissues under varying conditions. This database is based on 3-tier architecture, developed in ASP.NET(C#) and SQLSERVER.

Message of Principal Investigator and Vice-Chancellor

             "The little millet transcriptome database (LMTdb) was conceptualized upon completion of the transcriptome sequencing in 2017 with the aim of deciphering the genetic signatures of this largely unknown crop for many nutritional and abiotic stress attributes and providing scientific community an accurate and annotated genes related information. The database was developed with the view to provide information about most comprehensive part of the genome, the Transcriptome. The database contains various information for transcriptome sequence, functional annotation, microsatellite markers, DEGs and pathway information. The database is freely available resource provides breeders/scientists a portal; to search, browse and query data to facilitate functional and applied OMICs studies in Millet crops. The current release of the database provides transcriptome sequence form popular and cultivated variety of the little millet. "

- Dr. Girish Chandel